"But science does do absolutes. " I could make some jokes, too...but..." Anything else is philosophy" the following IS philosophy of science...(we philosophers get to meddle in everyone's business by just putting "Philosophy of" in front of it.)

Science LOOKS for absolutes... but nothing approaches scientific absolutes except certain generalizations about behavior of matter 'under certain conditions'. "Most paper will burn given a heat source and X concentration of Oxygen"... or some such formulation.

Absolutes? Hard to pin down, as this shows. (sorry Pete 7*)

"The discovery of DNA in a 400,000-year-old human thigh bone will open up a new frontier in the study of our ancestors."
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"But the recent pace of progress in sequencing technology has astonished many scientists: "Years ago, geneticists said they wouldn't be able to find DNA that was older than 60,000 years old," said co-author Jose Bermudez de Castro, from the National Research Centre for Human Evolution (CENIEH), a member of the team that excavated the fossils.

"Of course, that wasn't true. The techniques have advanced hugely."